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NPR profiles the important role of that individuals with Down syndrome play in Alzheimer's research, the debate over early Alzheimer's diagnosis, the need for equal treatment of women in medical research, and Sen. Bob Casey introduces a caregiver corps bill (read more).

Breakthrough in neuroscience research into autism disease, the impact of early onset Alzheimer's, and NIH challenges innovators to develop ways to track the health status of a single cell in complex tissue over time in the hopes of developing breakthroughs in disease like Alzheimer's (read more).

ALS co-founder calls for a commitment to fight brain diseases like ALS and Alzheimer's, the growth in Alzheimer's related fiction, and Alzheimer's patients will receive young blood transfusions as part of a Stanford School of Medicine clinical trial (read more).

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Why 2020?

USAgainstAlzheimer’s has retained its goal of stopping Alzheimer’s by 2020 rather than endorsing the goal of the National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease that calls for preventing and effectively treating the disease by 2025. While we support the national plan and its goals, we believe, as most every family touched by Alzheimer’s disease believes, that preventing and effectively treating Alzheimer's by 2025 is simply too long a wait for concrete progress. There are promising avenues of drug discovery and development that will, if successful, deliver a means of slowing or deferring Alzheimer's symptoms by 2020. By voicing the urgency felt by so many families, we will pressure researchers and industry to do all in their power to make that happen.